1. You aren’t too good for public transportation
And I don’t know who told you you were. One of my favorite professors is a native New Yorker, and she says – get this – some people there actually walk places. They use their legs to move from spot to spot. And, she says, educated, filthy rich people will actually take the subway with plebeian strangers too poor to pay to breathe the sweet, 1% oxygen that they do. I don’t know why being seen behind the wheel of a vehicle you know you can barely operate in a city that can barely fit the people who live in it even matters. Do yourself a favor and let go of the keys to your ginormous truck one day. Sit on the bus. Reduce your CO2 emissions. Make new friends.
2. Parking is expensive
Not only are decals expensive, but University Parking Services sleeps well at night, regardless of the trashy, unfunny notes you write to them when you know you do wrong, and regardless of the fact that you might’ve amassed two hundred dollars worth of parking ticket violations within three hours of you double-parking in a handicapped space.
3. Stop making excuses
If excuses build bridges to nowhere, making excuses about why you can’t get to class because of parking renders you especially immobile. Parking sucks. Everyone knows that parking sucks. No one cares that parking sucks. Especially, no one cares about your tired Tweets that stopped being funny 12 years ago about how much parking sucks. But, with all of the options presented to you, why should anyone care about your perceived inconvenience? Since you know by now that you aren’t too good for public transportation, you can totally get on the bus. You can walk. You can carpool. You can use Park & Ride, the parking lots of which the commuter tags actually work, if you decide to ignore these tips and get one, anyway. Dive into all of these avenues of prosperity. Happy driving!
Sierra Mannie is senior classics major from Ridgeland.
